Sri Chaitanya

Before you is the life story of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu (1485–1534), a thinker, reformer, and inspirer of the bhakti movement, the founder of one of the most influential traditions of Hinduism—Gaudiya Vaishnavism. The key ideas of Chaitanya's teaching are presented in an accessible and systematic form: the principle of achintya-bhedabheda—"inconceivable oneness and difference," the philosophy of bhakti as a path of spiritual love, and the understanding of Krishna as a personal Absolute. This book is about a man who became a symbol of spiritual fire and about a tradition where philosophy meets song and theology meets the experience of living love.